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  • #1
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “When one teaches, two learn.”
    Robert Heinlein

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #3
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    Robert A. Heinlein
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  • #4
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

  • #6
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Belief gets in the way of learning.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #7
    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #8
    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #9
    Ayn Rand
    “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
    Ayn Rand, Anthem

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    John Crowley
    “The things that make us happy make us wise. ”
    John Crowley, Little, Big

  • #16
    John Crowley
    “The universe is Time's body.”
    John Crowley, Little, Big

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway



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